The Fat Controller: station announcer 'tells obese passengers not to sit down on packed train'

Passengers waiting for a train in Basingstoke, Hampshire, say they were told: 'If
you are fat then it is simply not going to work'

A station announcer told fat people not to sit on a South West trainPhoto: ALAMY

By Agency

2:44PM GMT 13 Mar 2015

Train passengers were shocked when a station announcer said fat people should not sit down because of a lack of space.

A train leaving Basingstoke, Hampshire, was packed full of commuters when a member of the train staff is reported to have said: "We are going to be like sardines on this train, so can I ask that only slim people sit on the three seaters.

"If you are fat then it is simply not going to work."

One outraged commuter said: "I am not necessarily a big person, but most people are larger than those seats anyway.